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Panel expert downbeat on Korean investments in premium TV displays

What They Say The Korea Herald reported from a seminar in Seoul last week that Yi Choong-hoon from UBI Research that although there is some demand for large OLEDs for TVs, monitors and laptops, there is uncertainty over investment plans by LG Display (LGD) and Samsung Display. LGD is expected to make a loss this … Read more

IDTechEx Analyzes Meta’s VR Optics Future

Virtual Reality (VR) hecadsets are edging toward becoming commonplace. However, social acceptability is still some way off and the user experience is not entirely comfortable. Essential to solving these problems are the lenses that magnify and focus headsets’ displays. Until recently, this field was relatively static, with headsets using optics based on Fresnel lenses, but … Read more

Links Week Starting 27th June 2022

Every week we see some articles that don’t really need comment or are just plain interesting. Here are a few from the first part of this week. (I’m still catching up after Display Week!) Huawei MateStation X: all-in-one PC with touch display [ViewFinity S8] Your Guide to Selecting the Ultimate Content Creation Monitor (from Samsung) … Read more

Next Generation MicroLED Displays at DisplayWeek 2022

Next Generation microLED displays were showcased and discussed at DisplayWeek 2022 through exhibitions, the Business Conference, symposiums and seminars. MicroLED provides the best features of LCD and OLED display and has the potential to outperform both technologies in terms of color reproducibility, brightness, reliability and low power consumption. With the increased importance of the metaverse, … Read more

Bloomberg: Apple planning A14 Apple TV

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What They Say Bloomberg’s Apple watcher, Mark Gurman, said that the firm is about to “embark on one of the most ambitious periods of new products in its history” between the autumn of this year and the middle of 2023. The article highlights the ‘always on’ widgets that will exploit LTPO technology to refresh at … Read more

KAIST is Developing a White OLED Device Based on Fiber Substrates

Researchers from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (Daejeon, Republic of Korea) or KAIST are developing a white OLED (WOLED) on a thin fiber substrate. Such fibers have the potential for use in applications that included flexible fabric-based displays. First, a few words of background information. Up to now, it has been difficult … Read more

TCL CSoT Promotes Advanced OLED Technology

What They Say Chinese website Weixin.qq.com reporter that TCL Huaxing has said that it has developed LTPO technology that can cover a range of 1 to 144Hz refresh. It has also developed MLP (Micro Lens Panel) technology to boost display brightness. The firm believes that a combination of these two technologies can reduce power consumption … Read more

Apple Takes 62% of Premium Market in Q1 2022

The global premium (US$400 and above wholesale ASP) smartphone market sales volume declined 8% YoY during the quarter, but it still performed better than the overall smartphone market, which declined by 10%, according to Counterpoint Research’s Market Pulse Service. This the eighth consecutive quarter in which the premium market has outperformed overall smartphone market growth. … Read more

New XR Experience in Canada “Uncontained” is Contained

What They Say A firm called XR Immersive Tech Inc. has said that it will launch a new immersive XR experience in Canada at the Playland Amusement park in British Columbia and the PNE Fair in Vancouver. It’s called ‘Uncontained’ although the experience is based on containers that provide up to six players with co-operative … Read more